"You do not get cancer by chance": Communicating the role of environmental causes in cancer diseases and the risk of a "guilt rhetoric"

Psychooncology. 2019 Dec;28(12):2422-2424. doi: 10.1002/pon.5224. Epub 2019 Oct 21.

Authors

Serena Oliveri^{1

2}, Ludovica Scotto², Giulia Ongaro², Stefano Triberti^{1

2}, Paolo Guiddi², Gabriella Pravettoni^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology (DIPO), University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
² Applied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), IRCCS, Milan, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: cancer; decision making; empowerment; life choices; oncology; psychological support; sense of agency; sense of guilt.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

DNA
Decision Making
Guilt
Humans
Neoplasms*
RNA Polymerase II*

Substances

DNA
RNA Polymerase II